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"Otherworldly CreaturesThe final Alexander McQueen fashion show to take place before the designer’s death was the blockbuster Plato’s Atlantis S/S10 collection. Its significance within fashion history has not only marked it out as pioneering in terms of its use of technology – showing a fashion film by Nick Knight, who also streamed the show live on SHOWStudio, which subsequently crashed due to a unpredictably vast volume of traffic – but beyond the hype, the aesthetic of the collection was equally astounding. These were not models presenting clothes, but, having had their silhouettes warped with McQueen’s vertiginous armadillo shoes and their heads mutated with reptilian scales, they became monsters; their human characteristics sacrificed to fully realise McQueen’s vision.\nIn the 1970s designers in the Bauhaus movement used clothing and costumes that suppressed the human element in order to realise some higher creative concept. In German artist Oskar Schlemmer’s Triadisches Ballett (1922) dancers are dressed in three-dimensional perfect geometric forms, with metal masks with black eyes and bulbous primary red and blue spheres for arms. Just as McQueen’s transformative Armadillo shoes created a tribe of slow-marching, gangly space monsters, Schlemmer’s too influenced the performers' movements; the choreography had the cast of demented, pastel-hued robots stepping metronome-like in time to a score of mechanically even tempo."
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